BRIEF CHRONOLOGY
Completed undergraduate and graduate studies in Fine Arts at the Glasgow School of Art, Scotland ,U.K. McCay holds a second Masters in Fine Arts from the University of Notre Dame. An active visiting artist and lecturer, having held positions in leading colleges of art and Design including University of Notre Dame, Savannah College of Art and Design, Randolph Macon University, School of Visual Arts , New York, College for Creative Studies, Michigan, The New Hampshire Institute of Art, NH and New England College, Institute of Art and Design.
A national and international academic and professional solo, two-person and collective exhibition record of more than 30 exhibitions includes London’s Royal Academy, The Edinburgh International Festival, The Royal Glasgow Institute of Fine Arts , ‘Art haus 11’ , Sydney, Australia, The Irish College for the Humanities, Tralee, Ireland, The London Institute, England, American International School, Middlesex, U.K. and Galeria, 9Arte, Lisbon Portugal, ‘ArtHaus 11’, Sydney Australia.
Private and public collections include H.R.H. Princess Margaret, The Royal Bank of Scotland, Zurich RE Insurance Co, Glasgow School of Art, Baldwin Piano Corporation, Steinway Piano, Westin Hotels, Inc. Georgia Council for the Arts, City of Savannah International Airport, and the Irish College for Humanities.
The recipient of numerous individual artist grants and awards, including a Scottish Arts council scholarship, the David Carghil Award, most recently in 2019, he won the James McNeil Whistler Prize from the Whistler Museum, Lowell MA; In 2016 he was the recipient of the Arshile Gorky prize for Painting. Recent gallery representations have included Millbrook Gallery, Concord NH, Chace-Randal Gallery, Andes, New York, Bowersocks Gallery, Provincetown MA.
30 + years of teaching at the Higher Education level. He served as the College Dean, at the New Hampshire Institute of Art for approx. 10 years and subsequently served as the Chair of Fine Arts at New Hampshire Institute of Art, The recent NHIA merger with New England College has positioned McCay as 'Professor of Fine Arts’ serving at The Institute of Art and Design, New England College.
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